Jon - I definitely appreciated the balance of the lecturer's animated style and a seemingly accurate/complete description.
I have a hard time dismissing more than the Snarky part of PoMo theory/culture, even though I'm not an adherent in any obvous way. I appreciate your observations here: I reacted to Derrida from the start (my first encounter 20 years after he wrote/spoke) but this guy helped relieve that with his treatment. - Steve > I rather liked his characterization of Derrida's work as *all is text*, and > that the best we can do from the privileged perspective of logos is to > compare descriptions. > > [1] "As analytic philosophers might prefer to put it, thought and language > are capable of determining things only up to isomorphism". > > [2] "If that's right, there's no principled difference between describing > reality and describing a system of signs, a text, language itself". > > Through the lens of Lawvere's fixed point theorem, I am compelled to think > of Derrida's idea as Godel incompleteness for logos itself: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NddnaeZ03JE > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
